way, I forgot to tell you that Arthur is here. We have such walks
and drives, and rides, and rowing, and tennis, and fishing together;
and I love him more than ever. He tells me that he loves me more,
but I doubt that, for at first he told me that he couldn’t love me
more than he did then. But this is nonsense. There he is, calling to
me. So no more just at present from your loving

"LUCY.

"P.S.

Mother sends her love. She seems better, poor dear.

"P.P.S.

We are to be married on 28 September."

Dr. Seward’s Diary.

20 August.- The case of Renfield grows even more interesting. He
has now so far quieted that there are spells or cessation from his
passion. For the first week after his attack he was perpetually
violent. Then one night, just as the moon rose, he grew quiet, and
kept murmuring to himself-"Now I can wait; now I can wait." The
attendant came to tell me, so I ran down at once to have a look at
him. He was still in the strait-waistcoat and in the padded room,
but the suffused look had gone from his face, and his eyes had
something of their old pleading-I might almost say, "cringing"softness, I was satisfied with his present condition, and directed
him to be relieved. The attendants hesitated, but finally carried out
my wishes without protest. It was a strange thing that the patient
had humour enough to see their distrust, for, coming close to me,
he said in a whisper, all the while looking furtively at them:-"They
think I could hurt you! Fancy me hurting you! The fools!"

It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself
dissociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others;
but all the same I do not follow his thought. Am I to take it that I
have anything in common with him, so that we are, as it were, to
stand together; or has he to gain from me some good so stupendous
that my well-being is needful to him? I must find out later on. Tonight he will not speak. Even the offer of a kitten or even a full-grown cat will not tempt him. He will only say: "I don’t take any
stock in cats. I have more to think of now, and I can wait; I can
wait."